Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe - Reanimating Art

List of contents

Introduction: Reanimating Art; 1. Human Animals; 2. Surrealism Into Cobra; 3. War, Memory, and Renewal; 4. Expression for All; 5. Coda: New Networks

About the author

Karen Kurczynski is Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Summary

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–51). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Kurczynski, Karen (University of Massachusetts Kurczynski, Kurczynski Karen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781138490840
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49084-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Europe, Theory of art, Avant-garde, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / History / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / African, ART / American / General, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, ART / Folk & Outsider Art, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General